Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene /

Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare's tragedy from court to stormy heath activates a different sense of language as tool-being -- from that of participating in the flourish of aristocratic prodigality and circumstance,...

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Main Author: Dionne, Craig (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: this is the thing
  • Listening to the past; or; how to speak to the future?
  • Lear and the proverbial reflex
  • Accessorizing King Lear in the anthropocene
  • Coda: Lear's receding world.